FROM BLONDIE'S MAILBOX

(CAVEAT: THE BELOW POST CONTAINS EXPRESSIVE EXPLETIVES AND GRAPHIC LANGUAGE...IF YOU ARE OFFENDED, PLEASE IGNORE THIS POST! ---Blondie

But...This is just way too good not to share witheveryone...
This is a re-post from Ralph Nader's myspase bulletin:
"If you think the worst thing Congress doesn't protectyoung people from is Mark Foley, wake up and smell theburning planet. The ice caps are cracking, the coralreefs are bleaching, and we're losing two species anhour. The birds have bird flu, the cows have mad cow,and our poisoned groundwater has turned spinach into aside dish of mass destruction. Our schools areshooting galleries, our beaches are cancer wards, andunder George W. Bush -- for the first time in 45 years-- our country's infant mortality rate actually wentup.Read the labels on your food. It turns out thehealthiest thing you can put in your body is MarkFoley's penis. He was probably the first fruit thosepages ever came into contact with that wasn't drenchedin pesticide.But that's America for you -- a red herring culture,always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, thereare a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lustingfor your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceuticalindustry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street. Andrecently, there's been a rash of strangers makingtheir way onto school campuses and targeting ourchildren for death. They're called militaryrecruiters.More young Americans were crippled in Iraq last monththan in any month in the past three years. And thescandal is that Mark Foley wants to show them a goodtime before they go? When will our closeted gaycongressmen learn? Our boys aren't for pleasure.They're for cannon fodder. They shouldn't be anothernotch on your bedpost. They should be a comma inBush's war. If I hear a zipper, it had better be on abody bag.Why aren't Democrats and the media hammering awayevery day about who we're supposed to be fighting forover there and what the plan is. Yes, Mark Foley waswrong to ask teenagers how long their penises were --but at least someone on Capitol Hill was askingquestions. We're the predators. Because we have anentire economy built on asking young people what theywant, making the cheapest, sleaziest form of itthey'll accept, and selling it to them until theychoke on it and die.You know who's grabbing your kids at too young an age?Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, by convincing youthey're depressed, hyperactive or suffering fromattention-deficit disorder and so they must all getmedicated. The drug dealers hooking your kids aren'tin South America, they're in the halls of Congresshanding out campaign donations to your congressmen.Mark Foley says he never slept with those kids, and Ibelieve him, because American children are so hoppedup on pills I doubt any of them could get it up.From 1995 to 2002, the number of children prescribedantipsychotic drugs increased by over 400 percent.Either our children are going insane -- which we mightlook on as a problem -- or, more likely, we have, forprofit, created a nation of little junkies. So stopalready with the righteous moral indignation aboutpredators -- this whole country is trying to getinside your kid's pants because that's where he keepsthe money Daddy gave him to stay out of his hair.I don't care if Mark Foley had been asking boys todescribe their penises because I have some sad newsfor you: Your kid is so larded out on Cheetos andYoo-hoo, he can't even see his penis. We live in acountry where the ultimate consumer is an obese16-year-old hooked up at one end to a Big Gulp and atthe other to a PlayStation. So many of our kids todayare fat drug addicts, it's almost as if Rush Limbaughhad had puppies.In conclusion, we can pretend that the biggest threatto "our children" is some creep on the Internet, or wecan admit it's Mom and Dad. When your son can't findFrance on a map, or touch his toes with his hands, orunderstand that the ads on TV are lying -- includingthe one in which the Marine turns into Lancelot --then the person fucking him is you."